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The common yellow water lily (Nuphar advena).

Wearing spatterdashes. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

Coverings for the legs, to protect them from water and mud; long gaiters.

A spatula.

A kind of catchfly (Silene inflata) which is sometimes frothy from the action of captured insects.

An implement shaped like a knife, flat, thin, and somewhat flexible, used for spreading paints, fine plasters, drugs in compounding prescriptions, etc. Cf. Palette knife, under Palette.

Shaped like spatula, or like a battledoor, being roundish, with a long, narrow, linear base. [Also written spathulate.]

Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the liver; -- applied to the interlobular branches of the portal vein.

The act of enticing by soft words; enticement. [Obs.]

Situated over, or on the dorsal side of, the liver; -- applied to the branches of the hepatic veins.

Inclined to sympathy; sympathizing. Far wiser he, whose sympathetic mind Exults in all the good of all mankind. Goldsmith.

Sympathetic.

In a sympathetic manner.

One who sympathizes; a sympathizer. [R.] Coleridge.

To have a common feeling, as of bodily pleasure or pain. The mind will sympathize so much with the anguish and debility of the body, that it will be too distracted to fix itself in meditation. Buckminster.

One who sympathizes.

, but other sight instead -- a crowd Of ugly serpents! Horror on them fell, And horrid sympathy. Milton.

word, by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; as, "Gloster" is a syncopated form of "Gloucester."

The act of syncopating; the contraction of a word by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; syncope.

The sympathetic affection of one mind by the thoughts, feelings, or emotions of another at a distance, without communication through the ordinary channels of sensation. -- Tel`e*path"ic, a. -- Te*lep"a*thist, n.